CHRISTMAS TOYS.

Say, I like toys,

Christmas toys.

Remember when we were boys

Long ago?

Then you were a kid

Not a beau.

And on Christmas Day,

Oh, say,

We got up in the dark

And had a jolly lark

Round the fire.

The cold air was shocking

As we peeped in our stocking —

And, way down in the toe,

Now say this is so —

Dad placed a dollar.

Made me holler.

Yes, sirree,

They were good to me.

Remember Jim?

Mean trick I did him.

You know Jim was surly?

Well I got up early

Took his dollar out,

And put a rock

In his sock.

Gee, he was mad,

Went and told dad;

But dad he just laughed

And said:

Might's well be dead

If you could n't have fun.

Then for spite,

I kept that dollar‘ til night.

Funny, seein’ these toys

Made me think of us boys.

But now, Gee!

Christmas ai n't like it used to be.